nyknickzingis wrote:holfresh wrote:nyknickzingis wrote:This is Melo's team. Melo as the man gets you this. I don't care. He'll hit 2 game winners and screw up 20 in the process but many will still love how he plays.Rosen was spot on about him. Phil knows as well, but with the NTC it is what it is.
I am happy with the effort. I'm happy KP looked healthy and especially happy with his defense late in the game as a 5. That's the way to play, KP as a 5.
Horny coached a good game. Feel for him,
In the end, Melo has the Knicks by the balls until he waives that NTC or decides to defer share his control of the team. Just no way they should have been going to a cold Melo as much as they did in that 2nd half. I'm amazed how many seasons the Knicks have to watch this crap before it will change.
So now you don't want Melo to pass to the open man?
Melo controls and holds the ball too much just stalls the offense. No one knows what he's going to do, not even KP. I never care about how much he shoots. He dominates the ball. Worse is he dominates the ball in a way that the defense sets in and makes it easier to defend. Teammates don't know when he will pass or not. If he were Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan good, I wouldn't care. He would dominate. If he were Lebron. Again ok. He's Melo. A guy who can't lead you to wins. It's been proven time and time again, season after season, yet somehow the Knicks fans have to suffer through this. What Melo has to become to be a winning ball player is be more of a catch and shoot player, and make his shot or move within 3-4 seconds of catching the ball. This is how Golden State plays winning ball. This is how most of the better teams play. I am not Rose's biggest fan, but Rose makes his move quick. He isolates often like Melo, but the difference in Rose is that he goes straight to the basket and draws the defense in. I don't like the tunnel vision Rose can get when driving to the hoop, but the good is he makes the quick. Not stalling. Melo ball is always stalling.
At this point I don't even care. I was expecting this - a close loss. I liked we showed energy. We showed we cared even tired. 4th game in 5 nights. We're playing with intensity. Our offense was real good outside of the feed and watch Melo ball. We missed many 3 pointers that were open, I can live with those.
We need to keep playing this way, cut down the Melo iso ball. Melo can shoot 20 times a game but he needs to do them in catch and shoot, dribble off screen sets and pull ups, and quick turn arounds or post ups. No stalling. We run a great offense outside of this. Defensively I can't expect miracles but I'm seeing some life in this team. 19-25, and playoffs are not maybe looking good, but I have a good feeling about us if we keep playing this hard.
I'm even liking KP off the bench, but we need to run more plays for him. Our bench looks fantastic with KP, Lee, Jennings, Holiday.
If KP can come in and play 12 to 15 straight minute stretches off the bench, I'm fine with it. He looked really good energy wise today.
Thank you! That's what I've been trying to say! He holds the ball and the offense stagnates when he gets it. No reason to hold the ball there on the last possession. And, secondly, yes, I said this earlier: Melo is a catch n shoot player at this stage of his career. If he has the hot hand, fine. But the ISO Melo bull**** needs to stop!
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